Databases

Information About: Literature Online (LION)

Subjects: English and American drama, literature, poetry, fiction

Description:Literature Online features an ever-growing collection of over 330,000 works of poetry, drama and prose with complementary criticism and reference resources. The primary texts in Literature Online include English poetry from the 8th century to the present, American and African-American poetry from 1603 to the present, The Faber Poetry Library, English fiction from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, English drama from 1280 to 1915, and American drama from 1762 to 1832. Criticism and reference works include the MHRA's Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature with links to the complete full text of 61 literature journals, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, The Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English, the Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism, the Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, the Encyclopedia of the Novel, the New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story, The Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature, the King James Bible, links to other Web resources, bibliographies for over 1,350 authors, and biographies for over 1,550 of the most-studied authors.